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... fire or smoke , that the people of the country have never heard their fathers speak of it . Yet the evi- dences that it once did so are so plain , that no reasonable person can doubt it . A traveller , who has himself ascended it , has ...
... fire or smoke , that the people of the country have never heard their fathers speak of it . Yet the evi- dences that it once did so are so plain , that no reasonable person can doubt it . A traveller , who has himself ascended it , has ...
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William Carus Wilson. ground bore the marks of fire : at the same time it was covered with snow , which never melted ! -so great are the changes on the surface of the earth . This mountain , which once gleamed with a blaze of flames ...
William Carus Wilson. ground bore the marks of fire : at the same time it was covered with snow , which never melted ! -so great are the changes on the surface of the earth . This mountain , which once gleamed with a blaze of flames ...
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... fire - side , in fields and in gardens , and he speaks to each as if he called him by name . Like some venerable preacher about to go into a far country never to return , he ga thers the little ones of the flock around him , and bids ...
... fire - side , in fields and in gardens , and he speaks to each as if he called him by name . Like some venerable preacher about to go into a far country never to return , he ga thers the little ones of the flock around him , and bids ...
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... fire , to give his commands to the people ; and he had heard him say— “ Remember the Sabbath Day , to keep it holy . Six days shalt thou labour , and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou ...
... fire , to give his commands to the people ; and he had heard him say— “ Remember the Sabbath Day , to keep it holy . Six days shalt thou labour , and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou ...
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... : one striking peculiarity , which may perhaps in part account for this , consists in their being apparently quite strangers to the use of fire arms , so that the musquetry and shot of the English were objects of great wonder and awe . 36.
... : one striking peculiarity , which may perhaps in part account for this , consists in their being apparently quite strangers to the use of fire arms , so that the musquetry and shot of the English were objects of great wonder and awe . 36.
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Page 153 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 31 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 59 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
Page 65 - And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
Page 182 - No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
Page 72 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones : there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
Page 254 - But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten : as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves : so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Page 246 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him. and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day. he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 78 - Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet; but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 124 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.